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2011 , 59′ , couleur , documentaire
Conception : Manuela Frésil,Rania Meziani,François Christophe,Edie Laconie. Réalisation : Manuela Frésil. Production : Ad Libitum, Mil Sabords, Télénantes, Yumi Productions. Participation : CNC, CR Haute-Normandie, CR P

Filmed in their workplace in the repetition of daily actions, workers in industrial slaughterhouses talk about their suffering. Added to the accelerated wear and tear of bodies due to almost unbearable paces are nightmares, stress, fear of accidents, and the anxiety of a blocked horizon. Fortunately, we are between Normandy and Brittany, and the seaside is there for moments of relaxation, for the long-awaited retirement.
The image is striking: under the neon lighting of a factory which day and night transforms living animals into trays of meat, the flesh of the animals brutally meets that of men. Largely mechanized, the work of slaughter and butchery is no less dangerous, noisy, traumatic and stultifying. In voice-over we hear the testimonies of workers who tell what it does to the flesh and the soul to spend one’s life there, rubbing shoulders with the animals that one kills, that one cuts up. with an ax or knife and which are packaged to be sold – on promotion – in supermarkets. With the exception of the trade unionists who took the risk of being in the image, the anonymous testimonies form a chorus of all these crushed lives. Posing outside their factory, some workers mimic in a sort of choreography these gestures that they perform thousands of times a day and to which they refuse to allow their lives to be reduced.
Source: Eva Ségal